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Data center country, from Santa Clara to Northern Nevada
Data centers cluster where power and fiber come together, and the regions we serve hold some of the largest groupings in the West. Santa Clara, Sacramento and the industrial parks east of Reno all host large campuses.
Around those campuses sit many smaller server rooms, network closets and edge sites inside offices, hospitals and distribution buildings. All of them share one need: cleaning that keeps dust out of the equipment without putting the equipment at risk.
White space to your procedures
The data hall is the operator’s territory, so our work there follows your written procedures exactly. Crews gown at the entry point you designate, with shoe covers, hair covers and gloves as required, and carry only the low-lint wipes, approved solutions and HEPA-filtered vacuums your team has cleared for the room. Racks and equipment are left alone unless your procedure lists them.
The work moves from top to bottom: cabinet tops and exteriors, reachable cable trays, ledges and door frames, then the floor. Raised-floor tiles are vacuumed and damp-wiped with an approved solution, and under-floor plenum cleaning is scheduled with your facilities team, with tiles lifted and reset in the order they set so airflow and cabling stay exactly as they were.
Why dust control matters
Dust and fibers that settle in a data hall get pulled into equipment intakes, load up filters and make cooling work harder. Regular cleaning of floors, cabinet tops and the entry vestibules keeps that load low between maintenance cycles, and sticky mats at each doorway are replaced on schedule so shoes leave grit behind before anyone steps inside.
Access, escorts and logs
Data centers control who enters and when. Every crew member is background-checked and arrives on a roster you approve ahead of time. Crews sign in at the security desk, wear the badges you issue, stay with their escort wherever your rules require one and keep to the zones you approve for each visit.
Visits fit maintenance windows or quiet shifts, and each one ends with a log of the areas cleaned and the time. Your particle-count targets and audit calendar decide how often the white space is cleaned, and the schedule is written around them.
Support spaces outside the data hall
A data center is also a workplace. Lobbies, security vestibules, operations rooms, offices, break rooms, restrooms and locker rooms are cleaned on a nightly or weekly routine like any professional office. Shipping and receiving docks, staging rooms and loading areas collect cardboard and packing dust, so they are swept and scrubbed to keep debris from tracking toward the data hall. At round-the-clock sites, restrooms and break rooms get attention on every visit, because shift staff use them at all hours.
Battery, generator and electrical rooms are cleaned on the schedule and with the method your engineers approve. Corridors finished in sealed concrete or vinyl can be machine-scrubbed or stripped and refinished through commercial floor care.
Construction dust and move-in cleaning
New halls and fit-outs leave fine construction dust that has to be gone before servers arrive. Our post-construction cleaning removes debris and dust from walls, cable trays and raised floors in stages, ending with a final wipe ahead of commissioning. Warehouse-style space around the hall fits with our industrial and warehouse cleaning.
Server rooms and network closets in ordinary buildings
Not every computer room sits in a dedicated building. A server room behind an office suite, a network closet on a hospital floor or an IT room at a distribution center needs the same dust control on a much smaller scale. Our crews can add that room to the building’s regular cleaning visit, using the low-lint wipes and HEPA vacuum the space calls for, on the days and at the times your IT team approves.
In a small room, the routine is simple and strict. Floors, ledges and cabinet tops are cleaned, the door is closed behind the crew, nothing is plugged into a rack outlet, and cables, patch panels and equipment stay untouched. A raised floor or a sticky mat at the door is handled during those same visits, so your IT staff aren’t left cleaning the room themselves.
Quoting a data center
Pricing reflects white space square footage, raised-floor area, how often under-floor work is done, gowning and escort time, the support spaces and the visit windows. After a walkthrough with your facilities and security teams, you receive a written quote broken down by area and frequency. Request a walkthrough.
A few useful answers
Common questions.
Do your crews follow our gowning and access procedures?
Yes. Crews gown, badge in and work escorted according to your procedures, and they enter only the zones you approve for each visit.
Can you clean beneath the raised floor?
Yes. Under-floor cleaning is scheduled with your facilities team, and tiles are lifted and reset in the order they set.
What materials do you bring into the data hall?
Low-lint wipes, HEPA-filtered vacuums and cleaning solutions your team approves for the room.
Will you also clean the offices and loading docks?
Yes. Lobbies, offices, break rooms, restrooms and docks follow a regular routine alongside the data hall work.
Can you clean the server room inside our office building?
Yes. It can join your building’s regular visit, cleaned with low-lint wipes and a HEPA vacuum at the times your IT team sets.
